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As the League celebrates 95 years of Making Democracy Work®, we’ve been celebrating our past as we look towards our future and both the 100th anniversary of our organization as well as the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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Next week will mark the 94th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. With that ratification, the work of the newly formed League of Women Voters, which was founded to finish the fight for suffrage, really began. An estimated 25 million women were, with the stroke of a pen, eligible to vote. The task of registering and informing those new women voters was enormous.